While much of the country remains under a heat dome, I escaped the city of Cheyenne yesterday to travel to Snowy Range, west of Laramie, for a hike near the summit. We started hiking around 9:30am, and the temperature had not yet reached 70 degrees. As you can see from the pictures, Read more
This Sunday the Church listens to Christ in the Gospel of Luke. (10: 38-42) In yet another familiar Gospel story, Jesus enters the home of his friends, Martha and Mary. Martha is busy with the many ancient demands of hospitality, while Mary sits at the feet of Jesus. Even though Martha’s Read more
Today’s Gospel from St. Luke (10: 25-37) is one of Jesus’ great instructions regarding practical and concrete love. With the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus develops the Greatest Commandment, to love God with your whole heart and your neighbor as yourself. Authentic love draws one out of self into Read more
[laread_first_letter]A[/laread_first_letter]s I begin a time of vacation, I sit this evening with a bible, reviewing some of the recent Gospel readings from St. Matthew. I stopped to reflect upon the words regarding Jesus: Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the Read more
Last week I spent three days in St. Paul on the campus of the University of St. Thomas, at the Center for Catholic Studies, with a very talented group of people exploring the serious possibility of beginning an Institute on Integral Ecology. The genius behind this idea is Dr. Christopher Read more
On Thursday this week, following a funeral Mass, U. S. Marshalls shot and killed a man in the parking lot of St. James Catholic Church in Douglas, Wyoming. Local news coverage may be found here. This is the statement I issued yesterday in light of this tragic event: At this time, it Read more